Sweet Success

This is it. A moment every fan of who loves cricket in its purest form has hoped for; Australia brought down to their knees. And what an occassion!

The hype of a tour like this unmatched. People look forward to it for years. Players know that success on tours to Australia will put them in the big league. That's where teams often lose the plot. Once a side loses a test they give up. The rest of the series is all about individual battles which rarely have any bearing on the war. Sri-Lanka discovered through the class of Sangakkara, England too had to bow down after Pietersen's heroics, Smith's words could not be matched in actual play and it's been the same story always. However, India have not lost sight of the bigger picture, a series win. Even though the grace of Laxman has often been the talking point one has not forgotten there is the Border-Gavaskar tropy for the taking. India has always played with the series in sight. Although there have been several defeats every session of every match has been hard-fought.

The series, in all probability, should stand at 2-1 today. Australia, in all probability, will lose a test at home for the first time in four years. It should hurt more as their quest to break their record for consecutive wins, in all probability, will halt here. It will halt at a venue where they have hardly lost matches. The cricket world will cheer. But India knows that there is a prize for the taking.